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Enhancement for ZIP adapter

a option to list the files present in the zip file. Using ITX map we are able to compress and decompress a zip file. But the problem is we are unsure what files will be received in the zip file. If we are able to do it via a command in zip adapter...
3 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Future consideration

Add Transfer Method in use (Text or Binary) for CDW and CDU

During our transfers from remote partners, we are frequently called to assist others with translation and file transport issues. Many of our remote users are unaware of the CD processes in use and how they function. We need to have the ability to ...
about 1 month ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Provide a SWITCH or CASE function

Request to provide a long-missing function in ITX for SWITCH or CASE loop, where a set of evaluations would be considered in order with the first success would return a value and exit the loop. Example: = SWITCH ( UPPERCASE ( Value:Record ), "H" :...
4 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Other 0 Future consideration

Show IPs from external connection

When the product ConnectDirect recive conection from other servers like GSLB or conections from other servers and it gets for example FMH68 or other, Its interesting konws from which servers its comming this connection, because its imposible deter...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

ITX offers ADDDAYS, ADDHOURS and ADDMINUTES to Date Time objects. I have a requirement to add seconds, but there is currently no ADDSECONDS function offered to support this. My idea is to make an ADDSECONDS function available in ITX.

Given seconds can often be part of a date time object, not having a proper function to adjust seconds as easily as minutes, hours and days seems to be a gap that should be addressed.
over 1 year ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Design Studio 1 Future consideration

Improve Message ID XCMM005I

Actually to know what user is that who gets the error XCMM005I its necessary explore the logs and see the line before from the next message: STAR=20250527 09:07:23.950|CCOD=8|RECI=XCMM|RECC=CAEV|OSID=3589|TZDI=7200|MSGI=XCMM005I|MSGT=The submit co...
5 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Add Certificate Expiration Date to the list of fields logged for a partner certificate CERT= log event

Currently when a partner connects to our Connect:Direct server and negotiates a successful SecurePlus TLS connection, we can see other details of their X.509 certificate CERT= field like Common Name, Locality, State, Country, Serial Number and Fin...
10 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Reporting 2 Future consideration

Include SCORE+ maps in FinPay PLUS package

As domestic markets increasingly adopt ISO20022 standard, Financial Institutions are challenged to ensure integration of these new maps in their validation architecture. In this context, our customers are asking to include support for SCORE+ in Fi...
6 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 0 Future consideration

ITX lacks full and proper support for X12 Real, specifically interchangeable support exponential real values.

We've run into instance where JSON data has large enough values that some converted over to exponential passed into ITX X12 based maps using the office X12 Type Trees provided by IBM/HCL the translation was successful. However, the output of 2.107...
9 months ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / B2Bi Mapping & Translation 0 Future consideration

Transaction reports

We have upgrading the Partner Manger to ITXA and Presently in the Trading manager we have option to see the transaction report( see attached transaction report for details) we are looking not exact similar functionality but want to check if their ...
over 3 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / Trading Partner UI 0 Future consideration